“ Standard ” Butter Box Dropped

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 6

“ Standard ” Butter Box Dropped

TOO MANY TYPES. Per Press Association. 9 WELLINGTON, Last Night. Tho Minister of Agriculture (Hon. Lee Martin) announced to-day he had approved of tho drafting of a regulation which would amend the dairy produce general regulations to the effect that beginning on August I next the 44 standard” typo of butter box would be deleted and leave “sub standard” and 4 4 saranac ’ ’ as types which may thereafter be used as containers for butter for export. “It has been considered that for some time there have been too many types of butter boxes. The difficulties of obtaining adequate supplies during the current and preceding seasons have made this position more manifest,” the Minister said. “The reduction of the number ol types to two by the abandoning of the 4 4 standard” box offers a number of advantages amongst which aro the following:—(1) Saving of a large quantity of white pine timber annually; (2) simplifying the position for sawmillcrs and boxmakers as regards the thickness of boards for use in boxmaking. For the next season’s boxes only two thicknesses will require to be ordered instead of three for the current season. (3) The reduction in the percentage of broken boxes as the standard box being unwired is more prone to damage than the wired containers.”